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...Yonkers, N. Y., on the banks of the broad Hudson, is the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Since last autumn the Institute's scientists and technicians have been at work on a greenhouse heated & lighted by electric lamps. Last week Director William Crocker announced that the electric greenhouse was no longer a hopeful experiment but a successful fact...
...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...
Annual meetings, like trout-fly sales, are a highly seasonal phenomenon. Singer Manufacturing Co.'s shareholders do not gather until autumn because it takes nine or ten months to collect its sewing machine figures from all the Earth's corners. Bank of the Manhattan Co. holds its meeting in December before the year is done. But traditional annual meeting season is spring. And last week throughout the land stockholders took full advantage of their yearly opportunity to ask questions, make speeches and exercise their corporate franchise...
Last week the Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agriculture gave its second answer for 1935. U. S. farmers had planted 44,306,000 acres in winter wheat last autumn, said the report. Drought and dust had forced them to abandon 12,405,000 acres. The wheat standing on the remaining 31,901,000 acres on April 1 was estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly...
...less than 1% of the total U. S. automobile business, Hupp Motor Car Corp. makes an astonishing amount of financial news. For several years most of the news concerned the strenuous efforts of Archie Moulton Andrews, Hupp's biggest stockholder, to oust the old management. By last autumn Mr. Andrews was safely intrenched in the Hupp offices as board chairman, but peace failed to follow. Just as strenuous efforts were promptly launched to oust Mr. Andrews. And by last week the shrewd, breezy archpromoter, who does most of his work in a labyrinth of lawsuits...